Filed under: life, maritime, maritime heritage, sail training, Schooner Ernestina, tall ships | Tags: Boothbay Harbor Shipyard, Schooner Ernestina
Here’s a great video by the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard about their most recent Ernestina project. They also kept an interesting online Shipyard Log of their Ernestina work.
Filed under: Education, Environment, life, maritime heritage, sail training, Schooner Ernestina, tall ships
New Bedford Standard Times report and my friend Don Cuddy wrote a good overview of what’s going to take place on Saturday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Supporters to meet to chart future of troubled Ernestina (Oct. 27, 2010)
For more information and to register for the event, visit the Sail Ernestina website or Facebook page.
This is Schooner Ernestina Week on Sea-Fever, so please make sure you check out all of the interesting and informative posts on one of the world’s most storied ships.
Filed under: Education, maritime heritage, sail training, Schooner Ernestina | Tags: ASTA Conference, Captain Sophie Morse, Schooner Ernestina
Schooner Ernestina has “educated” a lot of young people and few older ones over the years. Here’s a video of Captain Sophie Morse’s presentation at the 2003 Safety Under Sail Forum at the ASTA Conference. For professional sail trainers and mariners of all kinds, there’s a lot to learn from it.
On Saturday, October 30th the New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting an event to help chart a future course for the Schooner Ernestina. For more information, visit the Sail Ernestina website or Facebook page.
In honor of the grand old girl, this is Schooner Ernestina week on Sea-Fever. Navigate back here frequently and check out all of the posts!
Filed under: Education, maritime, maritime heritage, Schooner Ernestina, storytelling, tall ships | Tags: Concert Series for the Seamen's Bethel Restoration Project, Schooner Ernestina, Seamen's Bethel
Here’s a beautiful song that was written sung by the Rum-Soaked Crooks about the Schooner Ernestina. It was performed at the recent Concert for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Fund. (Please Help me Help the Seamen’s Bethel – Oct. 6, 2010) It was a fun evening with great songs for a worthy cause.
On Saturday, October 30th the New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting an event to help chart a future course for another worthy cause, the Schooner Ernestina. For more information, visit the Sail Ernestina website or Facebook page.
Filed under: maritime heritage, Schooner Ernestina | Tags: Schooner Ernestina
This Saturday, a crew of concerned citizens of Massachusetts and the greater maritime world are getting together to share their ideas about what might be the future of a ship that has more lives than a cat and more sea stories than a sailor. The schooner Ernestina is in dire need of help and if you are in the greater New Bedford area and care about America’s rich maritime heritage, you should attend and participate.
The event is being held on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 from 9 AM to 4 PM at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Pre-registration is requested. Visit the Sail Ernestina website for more information.
Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association Facebook page.
This week, I’m dedicating a boatload of posts to the amazing Ernestina. If you want to guest post, let me know.
Filed under: maritime heritage, Moby-Monday, storytelling | Tags: Concert Series for the Seamen's Bethel Restoration Project, Dillon Bustin, Moby-Dick, Seamen's Bethel
Last Thursday marked the first of a series of concerts organized by the Ladies Branch of the New Bedford Port Society for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project Fund. It was a great evening of shanties and sea stories by Dillon Bustin and the Rum-Soaked Crooks.
Here’s a short video of a neat song that Dillon Bustin sang. It was part of a youth education program that he helped organize in which students wrote a prequel to Moby-Dick. The song give each of the characters in Herman Melville’s classic an adolescent outlook. Here’s what was doing on with Moby-Dick. (Low light video but audio is definitely worth the listen.)
The Seamen’s Bethel is one of America’s historic treasures. Hope you will consider making a donation to it’s Restoration Project Fund so that future generations will be able to experience it. For more information or to get involved, please visit the Seamen’s Bethel website, email support@portsociety.org or call +1 508-992-3295.
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Filed under: maritime heritage | Tags: Columbia Expedition, Hit and Run History, WGBH
Who says learning history isn’t exciting?
The Hit and Run History crew think differently. They’ve created a great new web series on the PBS’s WGBH in Boston.
The first topic is the Columbia Expedition and here’s the prologue episode where they search out a rare coin that commemorated this historic event. Learn a little about American history by watching it now and go over to the Hit and Run History website to learn more!
Filed under: maritime heritage, Moby-Monday | Tags: Herman Melville, Moby-Monday, New Bedford Port Society, Seamen's Bethel
Ever go somewhere and “feel” that you are really experiencing history. Well, the historic Seamen’s Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts is one of those special places. If you haven’t been there, make a plan to and when you do make sure you sit in Herman Melville’s pew. Who knows. maybe some of his inspiration will rub off on you.
I’m a member of the board of managers of the New Bedford Port Society and we own and operate the Seamen’s Bethel and I recently wrote Please Help Me Help the Seamen’s Bethel.
If you live anywhere in the area, I invite you to join me for a very special fundraising evening with Dylan Bustin and the Rum-Soaked Crooks on Thursday, October 21st in the historic Seamen’s Bethel. You can buy tickets at http://bit.ly/bethelconcerts and 100% of the proceeds go to Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project Fund.
We are well underway with the work to make sure that future generations will be able to experience history at the Bethel and Mariner Home too. Hope you can join us and support the effort too!
Photo credit: Herman Melville’s Pew by Patrick Mont (kodachromeslides on Flickr.com)
Filed under: maritime, maritime heritage, Nonprofit | Tags: Concert Series for the Seamen's Bethel Restoration Project, Dillon Bustin, Mariners' Home, New Bedford Port Society, Rum-Soaked Crooks, Seamen's Bethel
I’m on the board of managers of one of the most amazing maritime nonprofit organizations anywhere. It’s called the New Bedford Port Society and this paragraph from our website explains how we got started:
In the late 1820′s, when New Bedford’s whaling industry was at its peak , several of the city’s leading citizens gave their deep consideration to the “character building” of nearly five thousand seamen employed out of this port. On June 2, 1830 they organized under the title of the New Bedford Port Society, for the moral improvement of seamen and later became incorporated under the following act: An Act To Incorporate The New Bedford Port Society For The Moral Improvement Of Seamen.
One result of successfully discharging our mission for 130 years is that now we own two of the oldest and most important historic buildings in New Bedford, Massachusetts: the Seamen’s Bethel and the Mariners Home. In fact, from a maritime history/heritage perspective, it could be argued that we have two of the most important buildings anywhere.
Beautiful historic buildings like ours require constant TLC and this can be is extremely expensive. We are currently underway with major restoration/preservation projects on both the Mariners’ Home and the Seamen’s Bethel and a result of this we have begun planning a major capital campaign so that future generations will be able to experience these historic treasures.
We recently announced a series of events called The Concert Series for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project (simple, unambiguous name) and from which all of the proceeds will go to a special fund designated for Bethel repairs. The first concert is Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 7 pm and it will feature the storytelling and singing of Dillon Bustin and the Rum-Soaked Crooks. It’s sure to be a great time for a great cause.
I hope that you will join us but if you can’t, I still invite you to participate in supporting one of America’s most important maritime treasures. If the concert doesn’t fit your schedule or is too far away, please consider purchasing a ticket and donating it back to the Port Society so that we can sell it again. It’s a powerful way to leverage your gift.
If you want to contribute funds, products, services or ideas, please don’t hesitate to email me or leave a comment below. Every little bit makes a real difference.
Thanks for putting up with this plug for a nonprofit that is very important to me and hopefully to many other Sea-Fever readers.
